Street Halo

written by Selma ©

Click on the photo to read it in the original size. I wrote this while listening to the song Street Halo by Burial. Therefore I strongly recommend you to listen to this song while reading.

Here are the words again, just in case you have trouble reading my handwriting. Feel free to leave a comment if there’s something you want to ask or say about it.

Street Halo

Yet another night alone

The air is moist and cold

I fill my lungs with smoke

standing in a city that never awoke

Cold, concrete buildings

confine me to walk narrow streets

Nothing here soothes me

Always alone.

I don’t look around me, so all I can see

is wet asphalt, moving under my feet

It feels like time has stopped me

walking ‘till infinity.

Movement of traffic and human beings

cannot move me.

Nothing but the gloom of the city

can fill me.

I’ve been here all my life

but why?

Wandering ‘round with bloodshot eyes

did I tell myself too many lies?

I’m looking for a way out of here

wandering around, hoping to find an exit sign

but there are no exit signs outside.

another silent cry..

Is it me or is it the city

that keeps me here?

What if there’s no way out of here

Do I have the courage to create an exit sign

outside?

Simplicity- drawings

Since I was a little kid I liked to draw. I wasn’t very good at it, but I practiced a lot and that made me better. About two years ago I found a guy from Singapore on DeviantART.com who did some nice graffiti work. Here is a link to his work: antz81. It inspired me to make some simplistic drawings. There’s no deeper thought behind it, just simplicity and music, except for the last drawing. I made that one when I was frustrated about life. I called it: FUTURE one big question mark. As you can see there’s an ugly guy standing in the centre who laughs in a mean way. That’s the source of my frustration with a lot of shit around it. Even though there’s nothing beautiful or special about the drawing itself I really like that one.